by sashabro89 | Apr 26, 2022 | AAC, Autism, Uncategorized
While I often write about serving students in regular education classrooms or learning support, today I’d like to discuss supporting our students in the autism support classrooms- particularly those who are non-speaking or minimally speaking without mastery of...
by sashabro89 | Sep 5, 2021 | AAC, Autism, Uncategorized
Today’s post is all about AAC apps and how parents/families can easily obtain and set up their child’s communication device. While I highly encourage families to meet with a speech-language therapist that specializes in augmentative & alternative...
by sashabro89 | Jun 18, 2021 | Autism
Now that the school year is over, it seems a good time to reflect on how our profession treats autistic individuals or “autistics” as many like to self-identify themselves. When I first started working with autistic children in clinical practicum, I...
by sashabro89 | Apr 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Photo by Kobe Michael on Pexels.com The Problems with Expected vs Unexpected Behaviors Recently, I’ve been teaching my social skills groups about expected vs. unexpected behaviors. We sometimes run into the problem of “expected” vs...